threesome

From three +‎ -some.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈθɹiːsəm/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• Rhymes: (UK) -iːsəm

threesome (plural threesomes)

1. A group of three people or things.

   Synonyms: triad, trine, trinity, trio, troika, triumvirate; see also Thesaurus:trio

2. An instance of sexual activity involving three people.

   Synonyms: ménage à trois, three-way, troilism

   • 1998 July 26, Jenny Bicks, “Three's a Crowd”, in Sex and the City, season 1, episode 8, spoken by Samantha:

     Threesomes are huge right now. They're the blow job of the '90s.

   • 2013, Joanna Biggs, “Tell me everything”, in London Review of Books, volume 35, number 7:

     ‘Tell me everything,’ she said to Losse, and when she’d heard everything, got the colleague who kept suggesting a threesome discreetly demoted.

   • 2016, Tim Carvell [et al.], “Charter Schools”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 3, episode 22, John Oliver (actor), Warner Bros. Television, via HBO:

     That’s a threesome joke about her fucking children! It was in the first season and they gave her another one!

• twosome, foursome, fivesome, etc.
• moresome

• motherese